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SILVIA RUEDA PASCUAL
PDI-Titular d'Universitat
Knowledge area: COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Department: Computer Science
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación Pº de la Castellana, 162, planta 4º, despacho 10. 28071 Madrid
(9635) 44123
Biography

Computer Engineer and PhD from the University of Valencia, she is currently on secondment as Advisory Member in the Cabinet of the Minister of Science and Innovation and Director of the Women and Science Unit in the Ministry of Science and Innovation.

Between 2022 and 2023 she was Territorial Director at the Department of Innovation, Universities, Science and Digital Society. Until then she worked as Professor at the Computer Science Department of the School of Engineering (ETSE-UV), where she was the director between 2015 and 2021, being the first woman to access the direction of this department.

Her career is divided into three main research lines: 1. Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics, 2. Software Engineering and 3. Digital Gender Gap. These lines culminated in the creation of the research group TADeSP (Advanced Techniques for Software Development centered on the Person) that works works on various interrelated and complementary lines of research, which share the common objective of analyzing the aspects that intervene in the relationship of the person who interacts with the software to be developed. Always taking into account the gender perspective and the diversity of the people who will use the applications, with the ultimate objective of providing advances in software quality from the point of view of human sight.

She has been responsible for STEM-UV within the Office of the Vice President for Equality, Diversity and Sustainability of the UV, Director of the UV-GVA Chair for the Digital Gender Gap and coordinator of the Girls4STEM project, aimed at promoting STEM vocations, especially among girls. In 2022 she received the Sapiens Academic Award from the Official College of Computer Engineering of the Valencian Community for her work in favor of gender equality in the STEM-ICT sector.

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